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The India Meteorological Department has predicted that heavy rainfall is very likely to occur at isolated places in Kerala over the next 3-4 days.The Met Centre has also issued a red alert for rainfall for eight districts of Kerala, including Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Idukki,...
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India is reviewing the impact of a United States court ruling that blocks President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports, sources said.The US court found the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which Trump has cited as his basis for ordering massive increases in...
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The Allahabad high court on Thursday dismissed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's petition challenging a trial court's summons and complaint against him over alleged derogatory remarks about the Indian Army during his Bharat Jodo Yatra.A Lucknow bench of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi passed the order and...
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India is in touch with Iran over three Indian nationals who went missing in that country, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday.MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said efforts are being made to trace the Indians. It is learnt that they went missing this month.The three Indian...
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Two Chinese nationals have been arrested from Bihar's Madhubani district for allegedly making videos of the India-Nepal border areas, police said on Thursday.The duo did not have valid travel documents, too, a police officer said.They were first apprehended by personnel of the Sashastra Seema Bal...
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Police in Maharashtra's Nagpur have brought back the city-based woman, who crossed over to Pakistan from Kargil earlier this month before being repatriated by the neighbouring country, officials said.The woman, Sunita Jamgade (43), was brought to Nagpur late Wednesday night, following which she...
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Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanding that the PM explain to 140 crore Indians how many Rafale aircraft were shot down by the Pakistani Army during the recent conflict.Addressing the 'Jai Hind' rally in...
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Envoys of six countries, including Turkiye and Bangladesh, on Thursday presented credentials to President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.Those who presented their credentials were Ali Murat Ersoy, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkiye, M Riaz Hamidullah, High Commissioner...
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Christopher Clary presents a working paper of the available evidence on what transpired in the recent India-Pakistan crisis over four days in May, and its implications, for stimson.org, here.
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Representation image: Pic: PTI Photo/Rediff archives
The Army is realigning its numbers in eastern Ladakh, facing China. The raising of a new division, 72 Infantry Division, which was okayed by the government earlier, has now been given the final shape, reports Ajay Banerjee in The Tribune, Chandigarh, here.
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Among Sensex firms, IndusInd Bank climbed 2.41 per cent a day after markets regulator Sebi barred its former CEO, Sumant Kathpalia, and four other senior officials from accessing the securities markets in connection with an alleged insider trading in the bank's shares.Sun Pharma, Adani Ports,...
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Benchmark stock index Sensex rebounded on Thursday after two days of decline, mirroring a rally in global markets as a US court blocked President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs.The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 320.70 points or 0.39 per cent to settle at 81,633.02 in a volatile session amid...
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The rupee declined 10 paise to close at 85.48 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday due to a strong American currency against major crosses overseas and rising global crude oil prices.However, positive domestic equity market and foreign fund inflows supported the local currency and...
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External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Thursday has reiterated India's stance on bilateral discussions with Pakistan, stating that the only area left for discussion between the two countries is Pakistan's handing over of terrorists and vacating the illegally occupied area of...
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Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) said on Thursday that it will not allow the release of Kamal Haasan's film Thug Life in Karnataka unless he issues a public apology by May 30 for his controversial remark about the Kannada language.Speaking to reporters after a meeting with the...
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says, What Modi ji said today, we are not only shocked but also very sad to hear this, when the Opposition is representing the country.In his presence his minister said that they will do Operation Bengal, like Operation Sindoor. I challenge them - if they have guts,...
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Shubman Gill's Gujarat Titans will be up against the mighty Mumbai Indians, who also have issues to be addressed, in the winner-takes-all IPL Eliminator in Mullanpur on Friday. It is a knock-out game but both sides are used to the stage with Mumbai Indians being the five-time champions. Titans...
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The post on X by the Congress
The Congress party today once again claimed that as many as six surgical strikes were carried out when the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government was in power and criticized the BJP for politicizing the armed forces. The Congress released a list of six UPA-era surgical strikes on X...
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Indian soldiers at the LoC
Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Thursday asserted that he was not aware of any surgical strike carried out during the UPA government led by Manmohan Singh, and that there was no information available about it. He said Operation Sindoor was necessary to teach Pakistan a lesson, adding that...
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Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of diverting attention from the BJP-led Centre's failures, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday posed five 'counter-questions' in response to the PM's remarks about crises allegedly affecting West Bengal. In a post on X, the party called upon the PM...
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The overall number of frauds, including those related to loan accounts and digital payments, jumped by three times in FY25, primarily due to reclassification of 122 cases as per a Supreme Court order, the Reserve Bank said on Thursday. The fraud value jumped to Rs 36,014 crore in FY25, up...
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The Centre has ordered deployment of 580 companies, comprising about 42,000 on-ground personnel, of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) for the annual Amarnath Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said on Thursday. While 424 companies are being sent to the Union Territory (UT),...
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Chief of Air Staff and Air Chief Marshal AP Singh
Chief of Air Staff and Air Chief Marshal AP Singh on Thursday raised serious concerns over persistent delays in defence projects, highlighting the systemic issue of unrealistic timelines and their impact on operational readiness. During his address at the CII Annual Business Summit 2025, Air...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Operation Sindoor was far from over, asserting that Pakistan had already been hit three times inside its home. He warned that India would act decisively against all those who sponsor terror. Addressing a rally in West Bengal's Alipurduar, the...
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India's first ever silent feature film, Raja Harishchandra
India's first ever silent feature film - Raja Harishchandra - in 1913, was made with Marathi language title cards. Over the past few decades, though, Marathi cinema lost its way, overshadowed by Hindi films from Bollywood. But could a revival be in sight? Read the column here.
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India has scores and scores of varieties of mangoes. Many are very rare. Some are region or state favourites. Find out the most popular choices of each state, as per the National Horticulture Board listing. Take a look
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PM Narendra Modi speaking in Alipurduar, West Bengal: Today, West Bengal is surrounded by many crises simultaneously. First is the crisis of violence and anarchy spreading in the society. Second is the unsafety of our mothers and sisters who are being subjected to heinous crimes. The third crisis...
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A US federal court has blocked President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, in a major blow to a key component of his economic policies.The Court of International Trade ruled that an emergency law invoked by the White House did not give the president unilateral authority to impose tariffs on nearly...
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Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday said 19 Covid patients are hospitalised in Delhi but there is no need to worry. The Delhi government is alert and hospitals are ready, the chief minister told reporters at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital in New Delhi. Nineteen patients are admitted to...
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Sixteen persons have died in Maharashtra over the last five days due to rain-related incidents such as landslides, lightning, tree or structure collapse, according to a state government report. Maharashtra witnessed heavy rains from May 24 as the monsoon made its onset early this year....
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Hundreds of posters and hoardings have been put up in Patna ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to the state beginning Thursday evening. The visit comes months before the state heads to assembly polls.According to an official communication, the Prime Minister is scheduled...
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A 65-year-old man was allegedly beheaded on suspicion of practising sorcery in Odisha's Kalahandi district, police said on Thursday. The headless body of the victim, identified as Rupsingh Majhi of Deypur village under Kalampur police limits, was recovered from a village pond. According to...
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Shashi Tharoor in Panama
Bhartiya Janta Party spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla accused Congress of attacking its own leaders whenever Pakistan is exposed on global platforms, claiming the party treats those who prioritise national interest over political loyalty as persona non grata. Speaking to ANI, Poonawalla said,...
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A damaged terror base in Muridke near Lahore
India could have inflicted more damage while retaliating to Pakistan's terror attacks with 'Operation Sindoor' but it exercised restraint, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday. Addressing an event in the national capital. Singh said those residing in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir...
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People of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) are part of the Indian family and the day is not far when they will return to India's mainstream voluntarily, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday. Laying out India's policy approach towards Pakistan, Singh said New Delhi has redesigned...
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Pic courtesy: X
Spiritual leader Jagadguru Rambhadracharya on Thursday reveal details of his interaction with Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi, who had visited his ashram in Chitrakoot on Wednesday. Speaking about the visit, Jagadguru Rambhadracharya said, I gave him the same Diksha (initiation)...
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The country is poised to remain the fastest growing major economy in the world even in FY26, the Reserve Bank said on Thursday. The benign inflation outlook and a moderation in GDP expansion warrant the monetary policy to be supportive of growth going forward, the RBI said in its annual...
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India is expected to be the primary engine of global economic growth in 2025 and 2026, according to a report of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Chief Economists Outlook. The report, based on a survey of leading economists, cites India's strong economic fundamentals and optimistic outlook...
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Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh on Thursday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for remaining silent on the US President Donald Trump Administration Defending Tariffs In a US Court.He accused Prime Minister Modi of ignoring the matter because he preferred praise over critical...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Operation Sindoor was a befitting reply to those who unleashed terror in India, asserting that the country was united in the fight against terrorism. Addressing the 50th anniversary of Sikkim's statehood function, Modi said the Himalayan state...
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Shashi Tharoor with the Panamanian Foreign Minister
Update: Amid Congress leaders' swipes at him over his surgical strike' remarks, party leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said that for those zealots fulminating about his supposed ignorance of Indian valour across the LoC, he was clearly and explicitly speaking only...
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Netflix, via Lady Whistledown, officially announced May 14 that Bridgerton Season 4 will be arriving in 2026. And Seasons 5 & 6 are on the anvil. Produced by Shondaland, based on Julia Quinn's novels, Bridgerton follows 8 siblings of a noble family, navigating love and the Ton in Regency...
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Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma shares this picture and writes on X: Happy Anniversary to my forever partner. Thank you for building this beautiful life with me.
10:34
Leading ecommerce players Flipkart and Amazon are deepening their push into the fashion segment, with a focus on smaller cities and towns. Flipkart reported that more than 6 million customers purchased ethnic wear in the past year, with nearly 90 per cent of sales driven by repeat buyers....
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Indian stock markets opened on a strong note Thursday, tracking positive global cues after a major US court ruling and upbeat earnings from US tech giant Nvidia. The Nifty 50 index opened at 24,825.10, gaining 72.65 points or 0.29 per cent, while the BSE Sensex rose by 278.71 points to start...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed visit to Gangtok to attend the golden jubilee celebrations of Sikkim's statehood on Thursday has been cancelled because of inclement weather conditions, officials said. He will, however, attend the programme virtually, they added. The PM was scheduled...
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A PAF base
In the aftermath of Operation Sindoor, the Pakistan Air Force has emerged with newfound operational credibility, eclipsing the Pakistan Army's traditional dominance for the first time in decades. With cutting-edge electronic warfare, AI-enabled capabilities, and Chinese support, the PAF's...
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Kashmir is limping back to normalcy
Security forces have apprehended two hybrid militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, officials said on Thursday. The officials said it was a major operational success. Hybrid militants are those who are not listed as ultras but are radicalised enough...
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Surrogate advertising is used for alcohol ads
The number of advertisements for products or services prohibited by law has increased by 23.6 per cent to 3,347 in 2024-2025, and a large chunk of the ads was from offshore, illegal betting platforms, according to the Annual Complaints Report released by the Advertising Standards...
09:40
Larsen & Toubro's (L&T's) board of directors saw a two-fold jump in remuneration in the financial year 2024-2025 (FY25), with median pay rising to 27.6 crore from 13.6 crore the previous year, the company's annual report shows. The number of directors in FY25 reduced from seven to...
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The delegation in Panama
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who is leading multi-party delegation to Panama, on Wednesday (local time) reaffirmed India's firm stance against terrorism and said that the country will not turn the other cheek and will respond to any further attack. Speaking at an event organised by the Indian...
09:29
Microsoft and Yotta Data Services have joined hands to offer the former's Azure AI services on Shakti Cloud, the latter's cloud platform, the two companies said in a press note.The partnership will help Microsoft and Yotta engage with IndiaAI Mission participants, government agencies, IITs,...
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Harvard University
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday said that the US will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields. In a social media post on X, Rubio wrote, The U.S. will begin revoking visas of...
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K Krithivasan, CEO and MD, Tata Consultancy Services, saw his pay package increase by 4.6 per cent to 26.5 crore for the financial year ended March, compared to 25.35 crore a year earlier, according to the company's latest annual report. Krithivasan, who is completing two years at the helm,...
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In a move that could aid speedier insolvency resolution of large corporate debtors and conglomerates, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has allowed resolution professionals to invite resolution plans for not just the company as a whole but also for the sale of one or more of its...
08:56
Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi
Naveen Kumar, a resident of Loni, Ghaziabad, and a key member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, was killed in an encounter with a joint team of the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) Noida unit and Delhi Police's Special Cell in the Thana Kotwali area of Hapur late last night. The accused, a...
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Actor Huma Qureshi visited the family of a senior government official who lost his life in the recent Pakistani shelling in Jammu on Wednesday and offered her condolences, an official said. As part of a broader initiative led by the Directorate of Tourism, Jammu, a series of celebrity...
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Anjali KumariAdani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) -- the countrys largest port developer and operator -- is set to tap the domestic capital market on Thursday via a bonds issue. It plans to raise up to ₹5,000 crore through 15-year bonds -- the biggest-ever rupee bond sale --...
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Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that his term as the chief of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the Trump administration has come to an end.Announcing his exit, Musk on X said, As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank...
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A civil defence exercise titled Operation Shield, initially scheduled for May 29, has been postponed in multiple states following directions from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.The large-scale mock drill was intended to simulate emergency scenarios such as air raids, drone attacks, and...
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